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Saturday, June 15, 2024

Polish Instagram Array, Top Left*

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"My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends." — Song lyric

* As of June 15, 2024.

Thursday, May 23, 2024

Logo Design: The Maltese Parrot

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"The stuff that dreams are made of." — Bogart

But seriously . . .

 
 

From OSF . . .
Thinking through generated writing
Mercedes Bunz
Digital Humanities
King’s College London
2023-06-22

Among the positions that take this independence even further is Susanne Langer's approach towards meaning. Long before Derrida, she suggested in her chapter "The logic of signs and symbols" that we should understand meaning not as a relation to an author at all. Influenced by music and musical notation, she defines meaning instead as the function of a term from which a pattern emerges:

It is better, perhaps, to say: "Meaning is not a
quality, but a function of a term." A function is
a pattern viewed with reference to one special
term round which it centers; this pattern
emerges when we look at the given term
in its total relation to the other terms about it.
(Langer 1948, 44)

Reference:

Langer, Susanne K., 1948 [1954]. Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art.  Mentor Book.

Saturday, May 18, 2024

Among the Positions

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From OSF . . .
Thinking through generated writing
Mercedes Bunz
Digital Humanities
King’s College London
2023-06-22

Among the positions that take this independence even further is Susanne Langer's approach towards meaning. Long before Derrida, she suggested in her chapter "The logic of signs and symbols" that we should understand meaning not as a relation to an author at all. Influenced by music and musical notation, she defines meaning instead as the function of a term from which a pattern emerges:

It is better, perhaps, to say: "Meaning is not a
quality, but a function of a term." A function is
a pattern viewed with reference to one special
term round which it centers; this pattern
emerges when we look at the given term
in its total relation to the other terms about it.
(Langer 1948, 44)

Reference:

Langer, Susanne K., 1948 [1954]. Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art.  Mentor Book.

Related art . . .

'The Power Of The Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts,' by Rudolf Arnheim

Cover illustration:

Spies returning from the land of
Canaan with a cluster of grapes.

Colored woodcut from
Biblia Sacra Germanica ,
Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 1483.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Friday, May 17, 2024

New Key

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"I've got a brand new pair of roller skates,
you've got a brand new key." —  Song lyric

From OSF . . .
Thinking through generated writing
Mercedes Bunz
Digital Humanities
King’s College London
2023-06-22

"According to Derrida, to break with its original context and with its situation of production entirely is the ability of, and even a necessity for, the written. With this argument, Derrida moves the author and their communicative intent to the margins and frees up space to approach meaning from another side, stressing the independence of writing from its speaker. Among the positions that take this independence even further is Susanne Langer's approach towards meaning. Long before Derrida, she suggested in her chapter 'The logic of signs and symbols' that we should understand meaning not as a relation to an author at all. Influenced by music and musical notation, she defines meaning instead as the function of a term from which a pattern emerges:

It is better, perhaps, to say: 'Meaning is not a
quality, but a function of a term.' A function is
a pattern viewed with reference to one special
term round which it centers; this pattern
emerges when we look at the given term
in its total relation to the other terms about it.
(Langer 1948, 44)

Langer's approach towards meaning as a function puts the relation to other terms in the foreground, the pattern a term is part of and linked to. From her perspective, strongly informed by thinking of meaning-making in music, this seems obvious. In music, no note holds meaning for itself. It is in the relation between notes that meaning emerges, and Large Language Models approach language in a similar manner."

Reference:

Langer, Susanne K., 1948 [1954]. Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art.  Mentor Book.

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